Mr. Walter Weiss

Program Manager

Mr. Walter Weiss joined DARPA’s Information Innovation Office (I2O) as a program manager in July 2017. His research interests focus on cybersecurity operations.

Prior to his position at DARPA, Weiss served in cyber operational, technical, and policy roles in the executive and legislative branches of the U.S. government, as well as the private sector.

Weiss holds a Master of Science degree in information systems engineering from Johns Hopkins University and a Bachelor of Science degree in information sciences and technology from Pennsylvania State University.

Programs

A substantial and prolonged disruption of electric power would have profound economic and human costs for the United States. From a defense perspective, a major power outage could hamper military mobilization and logistics and impair the capability to project force.

Selected DARPA Achievements

In the early days of DARPA’s work on stealth technology, Have Blue, a prototype of what would become the F-117A, first flew successfully in 1977. The success of the F-117A program marked the beginning of the stealth revolution, which has had enormous benefits for national security.

ARPA research played a central role in launching the Information Revolution. The agency developed and furthered much of the conceptual basis for the ARPANET—prototypical communications network launched nearly half a century ago—and invented the digital protocols that gave birth to the Internet.

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